enable biome extension to "monitor or alike" the workspace

[emedeirox]

"PROBLEMS" Tab only show the problems of the files that are opened.
Since biomejs is blazing fast it could monitor or check at opening the workspace.

with typescript I can accomplish adding this to JSON settings:

"typescript.tsserver.experimental.enableProjectDiagnostics": true

[hornta]

For me at least, this will make it easier to adopt Biome because when we switched from eslint to biome we got around 200 "errors" but only a handful of them was put into the Problems tab so I had to continously run biome lint and look through the output for each file to open and fix.

[Hahlh]

This would indeed be nice to have.

What's the current workaround to get a similar behavior?

[evheniydan]

Any updates on this? ESLint has this eslint.lintTask.enable which enables whole workspace linting (not only opened files). Any alternatives/workarounds in Biome?

[nhedger]

This hasn't changed, and there are no immediate plans to implement it.

[tomkel]

Here's my vscode task to lint the whole project and parse the output into the problems pane, adapted from here

    {
      "label": "biome lint whole project",
      "type": "process",
      "command": "biome",
      "args": ["lint", "app", "--reporter=github"],
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "always",
        "panel": "new"
      },
      "problemMatcher": {
        "owner": "biome",
        "source": "biome",
        "pattern": [
          {
            "regexp": "^::(?<severity>\\S+)\\s+title=(?<title>.+),file=(?<file>.+),line=(?<line>\\d+),endLine=(?<endLine>\\d+),col=(?<col>\\d+),endColumn=(?<endColumn>\\d+)::(?<message>.+)$",
            "kind": "location",
            "severity": 1,
            "code": 2,
            "file": 3,
            "line": 4,
            "endLine": 5,
            "column": 6,
            "endColumn": 7,
            "message": 8
          }
        ]
      }
    },

As far as the Language Server, it could probably be done with workspace/diagnostic